Subject: Re: Boot floppy
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/24/1999 21:41:01
>> Unless you're so short of disk space that you haven't room for
>> NetBSD and Solaris to coexist on your drive, you don't need to
>> destroy Solaris to get a NetBSD install in place.
> I'm short on space. The disk is a Seagate ST1480N which I suspect
> has a capacity of ~400MB, and I don't see any unused partitions:
> total sectors: 828720
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 259920 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 360)
> b: 66240 259920 swap # (Cyl. 361 - 452)
> c: 828720 0 unknown # (Cyl. 0 - 1150)
> g: 236160 326160 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 453 - 780)
> h: 266400 562320 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 781 - 1150)
And I assume the booted Solaris system uses all three of those
partitions (0, 6, and 7)?
I've done a NetBSD/sparc install on a zip disk, so I know it can be
done in 96 megs. I had to trim a few things, but you certainly can get
a system with enough marbles to be sure that it works and finish the
install.
Of course, that begs the question of finding that big a chunk of the
disk to do this in. 400 megs is pretty constraining (and yes, if the c
partition is 828720 sectors, that's about 400 megs).
Unless you're in Montreal, in which case I can help you in person. But
that's rather unlikely. :-(
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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